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འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.28

The Dharma Council 1.28

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1.28

“Pride refers to pride born of arrogance. One thinks, ‘This is bad,’ ‘I am noble,’ ‘I am equal to them,’ and so forth. This type of arrogance is called pride.

“There are two kinds of agitation: agitation that produces the afflictive emotions, and agitation that produces intense arrogance. Agitation that produces the afflictive emotions refers to determining form to be pure, but then behaving incongruently in body, speech, and mind. Such behavior is condemned by the noble ones. The agitation that produces intense arrogance is to be intensely arrogant about the path of emancipation itself, to be hasty, and to be self-conceited. This is called agitation.

“Bodhisattvas should understand the factors that oppose emptiness through these ten approaches to the way of the Dharma.

“Child of good family, bodhisattvas should understand those who follow the teachings on emptiness through ten approaches to the way of the Dharma. What are these ten? (1) Not being swayed and not moving; (2) being neither attached nor free from attachment; (3) neither accepting nor rejecting; (4) neither fighting nor arguing; (5) neither diminishing nor increasing; (6) tolerating the natural cessation of all formations; (7) not being afraid when hearing, ‘Nothing is ever produced by ordinary people nor is brought to an end by the buddhas’; (8) not being consumed with doubt when hearing, ‘The nature of saṃsāra and the nature of nirvāṇa are the same’; and (9) acting upon hearing, ‘The body of the Thus-Gone One is permanent and (10) its qualities are inexhaustible.’

“How should those who follow the teachings on emptiness be understood in terms of not being swayed? Followers of the teachings on emptiness are not swayed by worldly phenomena because they are without basis. They are neither excited by gain nor depressed when not getting what they want.

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